[JshWright]

When drawing up a medication from a glass ampule, you're supposed to use a filtered needle to prevent glass shards from being drawn into the syringe[1]. Now... many folks don't do that, because if you break it properly, the odds of getting glass shards inside the ampule are pretty small (and people are lazy).

In this case though, you're smashing the ampule inside a (non-sterile) container, which will keep all the broken glass, and mix it with the solution (along with any bacteria that have taken up residence on the outside of the ampule, or the inside of the 'ampule breaker' thing).

You're then supposed to draw that up (in a process far _more_ complicated than just drawing up a medication from a vial) and inject it into someone? No thanks...

[1]: http://www.safeinfusiontherapy.com/documents/Products/Partic...